The Cure

Two live albums is a lot of moping, but Robert Smith seems to relish every moment of Show
and Paris. For 15 years a totem for trembling teens with high IQs and low self-esteem, Smith
is the Cure-ator of a band that has built a museum of pretty misery. Particularly with their
keyboard fills, they frame their trance-inducing songs with sharp, angular hooks; at pop for
depressives, they rule. There's little apparent difference between these two ca... More >